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WRIGHT, WILBUR (1867-1912). Postcard photograph inscribed and signed ("Wilbur Wright"), n.p., n.d. [circa 1910]. 90 x 139 mm. (3½ x 5½ in.), minor wear at corners; matted. A three-quarter-length standing portrait of Wilbur with a friend at Leon Bollee, inscribed on the lower-left portion of the image: "With my compliments Wilbur Wright." Rare.
"On December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they made the first controlled, sustained flights in a power-driven airplane. Record-breaking flights in 1908 by Orville in the United States and by Wilbur in France brought them worldwide fame. Wilbur died in 1912 of typhoid fever, but Orville lived to see the extraordinary development of their invention"--W.M.
"On December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they made the first controlled, sustained flights in a power-driven airplane. Record-breaking flights in 1908 by Orville in the United States and by Wilbur in France brought them worldwide fame. Wilbur died in 1912 of typhoid fever, but Orville lived to see the extraordinary development of their invention"--W.M.